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Further Reading
Appleman, R. E. (1989). Disaster in Korea: The Chinese confront Warfare—Europe
MacArthur. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
Brent, P. L. (1976). The Mongol empire: Genghis Khan, his triumph and
his legacy. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson.
Chan, A. (1982). The glory and fall of the Ming dynasty. Norman: Uni- arfare has riddled Europe since antiquity, espe-
versity of Oklahoma Press. Wcially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Chassin, L. M. (1965). The Communist conquest of China: A history of
the civil war, 1945–1949. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University when armed European conflicts had an impact on the
Press. whole world.